Poets & Writers Theater

“What does it say of you if everything is dispensable?” Jonathan Safran Foer speaks about the themes and characters in his new novel, Here I Am (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016), which is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“It's a series of pages that have huge holes, or volumes, where words fly off the page into your imagination, into your face. It's kind of a book that has no rules.” Choreographer Wayne McGregor and visual artist Olafur Eliasson speak with Kathleen Flood of the Creators Project about Jonathan Safran Foer’s art book, Tree of Codes (Visual Editions, 2010), which was the inspiration for their 2015 dance performance. Foer’s new novel, Here I Am (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016), is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“And if you can’t keep secrets from your family, who can you keep secrets from?” In this video, Jonathan Safran Foer reads excerpts from his novel Here I Am (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) at Salon@615 in Nashville.

”I have a fair amount of fear when I am writing a book. You need to hate your work, but if you hate it too much it will stop you from writing," says Jeffrey Eugendies in this conversation with Jonathan Safran Foer, moderated by journalist Martin Krasnik and filmed at the Louisiana Literature Festival in 2012.

Author Jonathan Safran Foer discusses the difficulties of writing, his faith in the creative process, and what makes a book "good."

The forthcoming film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's second novel, which was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2005, stars Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright, James Gandolfini, and 2010 Jeopardy! Kids Week champ Thomas Horn.

Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer talks about his new book, Tree of Codes, a die-cut book published on November 15, 2010, by Visual Editions in which Foer carves out a story within the story of Bruno Schulz's classic novel The Street of Crocodiles.